C.W.A. Appeal For Flood Victims
The Country Women's Association has launced an appeal for flood victims and has started it with ten guineas. The need of those whose from have…
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Floods & storms, 1950
386 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 8 of 20
Floods Stop Coal Mines
Sydney.—Thirty-one mines are idle on the Newcastle and northern coalfields today for a loss of 12,500 tons of coal…
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Local branch of the Country Women's Association has decided to sponsor a local appeal on behalf of the flood victims in New…
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Sydney.—The Federal and State Governments have made an immediate grant of £120,000—£60,000 each—to assist the flood victims…
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With the continued flooding of the Cooper, stations on its northern side are believed to be running short of food supplies…
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Sydney. — Six hundred army engineers, equipped with mobile cranes, bulldozers, and mechanical shovels, will help to clear up the…
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The C.W.A. Flood Relief appeal is continuing. The appeal will close at the end of July. In addition to subscriptions…
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Sydney, June 30.—Estimations of the damage wrought by last week's cyclonic distrubance assume more tragic proportions daily as the flood waters recede…
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Those who believe in Divine Providence may have their faith severly tested when they view such terrible tragedies os the floodings that have…
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The Country Women's Association has received from Mr. Andrews, of Tandora Station £5/5/ toward the appeal on behalf of…
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Canberra, July 3.—The Commonwealth Government would give maximum help wherever needed in flooded N.S.W. the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, said. He…
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Besides financial donations the Country Women's Association is asking for clothing on behalf of the victims of the eastern floods…
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Latest donation to the C.W.A. appeal for flood victims in the cast of the State is £2/18/- from R. E. A. Kitchen's staff…
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THE METHODIST CHURCH in Kempsey (N.S.W.) has had its front wall battered down by floodwaters, inside are workmen cleaning up smashed pews, piles of bricks, and debris…
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If flooding of the Cooper continued at Innamincka another month the supply position there could become serious, Constable Simpkin, of the S.A. police force, said today…
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Sydney. July 5:—Forty council men at Hillston worked round the clock today sandbagging a levee to save that little wool and wheat town on the…
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Sydney.—Forty council workers are working round the clock sandbagging the levee at Hillston to save the little wool and wheat town…
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Sydney.—The northern half of New South Wales and southern Queensland are threatened with floods. Rivers in southern central Queensland and the Barwon, McIntyre and Gwydir rivers, in the…
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Sydney, July 10.—Flooding of lowlying areas within the next 24 hours is expected in all coastal river basins from the Richmond to tho Nepean Rivers. In…
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Sydney.—Fear of floods on the North Coast have been revived as the result of heavy rain. Many roads in the north have been made, impassable by flooding. A food shortage is developing at Dorrigo, which is again isolated. Shopkeepers have imposed rationing of available supplies to make them last as long…
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